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In the 1990s, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's use of "asymmetric constitutional hardball" led to increasing polarization in American politics driven primarily by the Republican Party. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Media and political figures began espousing the narrative of polarization in the early 1990s, with a notable example being Pat Buchanan 's ...
The Cold War period was widely understood as one of bipolarity with the USA and the USSR as the world's two superpowers, whereas the end of the Cold War led to unipolarity with the US as the world's sole superpower in the 1990s and 2000s. Scholars have debated how to characterize the current international system.
During the 1990s, the Liberals lost some of the traditional support they once had in rural Quebec, and by the new millennium they were almost entirely limited to winning urban and suburban constituencies (outside of Atlantic Canada) while the Conservatives were nearly shut out of the largest cities, further accelerating the trend. [10]
Kyvig, David. ed. Reagan and the World (1990), scholarly essays on foreign policy; Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years (1996), short articles; Martin, Bradford. The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan (Hill & Wang; 2011) 242 pages; emphasis on efforts by the political left; Meacham, Jon.
The divided states of America: Florida, California, and the future of political polarization. Noah Bierman. November 17, 2022 at 7:14 AM (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times)
When it comes to measuring perceived polarization, political scientists regard the quadrennial surveys by American National Election Studies as the gold standard. Every four years, it asks members ...
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "the Nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]
Mass polarization, or popular polarization, occurs when an electorate's attitudes towards political issues, policies, celebrated figures, or other citizens are neatly divided along party lines. [ 11 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 18 ] At the extreme, each camp questions the moral legitimacy of the other, viewing the opposing camp and its policies as an ...